​Chicago, USA, May 29, 2025: Arike Ogunbowale 24 Dallas Wings and Paige Bueckers 5 Dallas Wings looking dejected during the game between the Chicago Sky and Dallas Wings on Thursday May 29, 2025 at Wintrust Arena, Chicago, USA. NO COMMERCIAL USAGE Shaina Benhiyoun/SPP PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxBRAxMEX Copyright: xShainaxBenhiyoun/SPPx spp-en-ShBe-8P6A9769 ©IMAGO/Sports Press PhotoThe Dallas Wings’ season ended in heartbreaking fashion, but Arike Ogunbowale had something bigger on her mind after the 73-77 loss to the Golden State Valkyries. After watching Paige Bueckers help carry Dallas through a dramatic 2026 campaign, the veteran made sure her backcourt partner was not overlooked.Following the Wings’ loss, Ogunbowale and Bueckers appeared in the postgame conference, where the veteran guard made the case for her teammate to make the All-WNBA First Team. Her comments were part of the video posted to the WNBA’s YouTube channel as a livestream of the interview.“When we got Paige, I mean, generational player,” she said. “Like, she willed us throughout the whole season. Should be first team WNBA. If not, I feel like that s*** is rigged because she’s done everything for this team.”Bueckers was the leading scorer for the Wings in the 2026 regular season, helping lead the team to its most successful season in three years. The Wings, who won a combined 19 games in 2024 and 2025, won a franchise-record 27 games, finishing with the #7 seed.Tensions are boiling over in the WNBA playoffs. Subscribe to stay on top of every controversial call, heated rivalry, and the storylines reshaping women’s basketball.Bueckers also made individual history. She set the single-season record for both points and assists in franchise history. She beat Arike Ogunbowale’s previous mark of 849 points in 2023 by finishing with 878 points, and blew Skylar Diggins’ previous assists mark of 199 assists out of the water with 247 for the year.Bueckers also logged more points in the first two seasons of her career than any other player in league history, finishing with 1,570, while becoming the fastest player to reach 1,400 points and 400 assists over her career, doing so in 72 games, beating the record set by Caitlin Clark.Bueckers finished the season averaging 20.9 points and 5.9 assists. Notably, she made a big leap as a three-point shooter, improving from 33.1% during her rookie season to 41% this season.Unfortunately, the playoffs were not as successful for Bueckers. She started strong; in Dallas’ Game 1 loss to the Valkyries, Bueckers logged 21 points on 9-for-10 shooting, but her next two games did not go well. Over Games 2 and 3, Bueckers averaged 13.5 points on 22.2% from the field and 25% from three-point range, making just six of her 27 attempts over the period.Dallas head coach Jose Fernandez talked about how Bueckers had taken the loss following the team’s elimination, and expressed a similar sentiment to Ogunbowale.“Paige is taking it hard,” Fernandez